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The Rule of Crisis : Terrorism, Emergency Legislation and the Rule of Law by Pierre Auriel, Olivier Beaud and Carl Wellman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book analyzes emergency legislations formed in response to terrorism. In recognition that different countries, with different legal traditions, have different solutions, it adopts a comparative point of view. The countries profiled include America, France, Israel, Poland, Germany and United Kingdom.  The goal is not to offer judgment on one response or the other. Rather, the contributors offer a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the entire concept. In the process, they draw attention to the inadaptability of traditional legal and philosophical categories in a new and changing political world.  The contributors first criticize the idea of these legislations. They then go on to develop different models to respond to these crises. They build a general analytical framework by answering such questions as: What is an emergency legislation? What kinds of emergencies justify laws of this nature? Why is contemporary terrorism such a specific emergency justifying new laws?  Using legal and philosophical reflections, this study looks at how we are changing society. Coverage also provides historical experiences of emergency legislations to further illustrate this point. In the e

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Author

Pierre Auriel, Olivier Beaud and Carl Wellman

Publisher

Springer International Publishing, Cham

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319744742

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Philosophy, Humanities